Roland wrote:Vincent's method to update the kernel did not work yet, I still have the same kernel installed although I followed his advice. Probably I made a mistake somewhere due to inexperience; I think I will try this tonight:

cobian,i'm sorry to hear that you are having problems trying to fix this issue.regarding mint14, the RC was released today (not yet officially announced), you can try it here >> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/?C=M;O=D(unless something unexpected happens those will be the base to the official release)

zerozero wrote:cobian,i'm sorry to hear that you are having problems trying to fix this issue.regarding mint14, the RC was released today (not yet officially announced), you can try it here >> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/?C=M;O=D(unless something unexpected happens those will be the base to the official release)

Roland wrote:Vincent's method to update the kernel did not work yet, I still have the same kernel installed although I followed his advice. Probably I made a mistake somewhere due to inexperience; I think I will try this tonight:

I tried to freeze my computer but I can't.I opened a lot of software at the same time and all is well.Mint 14 RC cinnamon is very fast and very stable to date.I am impressed and very happy with that release.I guess that the final version will be even better.

For those who see their computer freeze sometime, do not hesitate to try this version.

After the upgrade to a new kernel, everything is running smoothly.What I wonder: how many hundreds of users have left Linux because of this bug? We will never know. Me too, having bought a new pc for Linux and fed up with the many freezes, nearly left Linux for that other OS until I found the solution here.

Why is this new kernel not pushed to all users? I suppose Ubuntu 12.04 has the same problem?

I think this thread should be marked as 'sticky' and 'solved' (but I am not the topic starter); or a warning should be placed on the home page for new users.

Hello everyone, the threads for this post are very interesting to me as I have just purchased a new Ultrabook from Novatech using Intel IvyBridge (see my VirtualBox Help thread) and to date under Maya Cinnamon it's been working tremendous. I suppose I should try opening multiple applications and get back to you, but I have had FireFox, LibreOffice, Pidgin, Calculator all open and no freeze ups?

mint 13 is based on ubuntu 12.04 which doesn't have good ivybridge support, and afiak freezing is a known issue with 12.04 + ivybridge, so mint 14's newer kernel and drivers will probably fix this issue for people running ivybridge.

I have been battling this issue for a couple of months, then found this post.In my case (Mint 13 and Cinnamon 2.0.14) I unchecked "Enable natural scrolling" and "Enable horizontal scrolling" in Control Center --> Mouse and Touchpad --> Touchpad. It seems to have solved my problem.